Your dog’s poop could cost you a lot more come September — if you don’t pick it up, that is. The Denver City Council last night passed a bill that allows the city’s Department of Environmental Health to set fees and fines related to animal control and care. And the…
A few things we learned at yesterday’s Film on the Rocks screening of Office Space: 1. Office machines are no match for blunt instruments. Not the printer in the parking lot and not the fax machine on stage, and that was all before the movie even started. 2. People hate…
No law is truly written in stone. Not even those tablets Charlton Heston brought down from the top of Mount Hollywood in The Ten Commandments, which looked suspiciously like slabs of heavy cardboard. But some laws, as they age ungracefully, begin to resemble big cement blocks. Take, for example, the…
Our daily cruise through the local blogosphere. Send tips this way. A new poll says Ritter’s approval rating is bad. But it could have been worse. (Colorado Pols) A little Rockies-related context before tonight’s All-Star game. (Purple Row) “Carbon Flats:” Swanky new condos on their way up in Arapahoe Square…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @WidepreadPanic: To kick off this very special edition of Twitter Tuesday, dedicated to amping you up for the Mile High Music Fest this next weekend, how about jam-band…
Local artist Kyle Banister is all about baseball. Yep, he lives it, breathes it, reveres it and draws it. “There isn’t an emotion that you will feel in life that you won’t feel on a baseball field if you spend enough time there,” Banister writes online — and that’s why,…
Officials at Denver International Airport recently floated ideas about an ambitious redesign of the facility’s terminal — although none of them were as interesting as those envisioned by Westword’s own Kenny Be. (Take a gander at his notions here, here and here.) In the meantime, Fentress Architects, the original airport’s…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. The ads are…
Surgical tech Kristen Parker, accused of spreading hepatitis-C to patients at two Colorado medical facilities, has precipitated actions by both Colorado agencies and private insurance firms. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has set up a hep-C page complete with links to Rose Medical Center and Audobon Ambulatory…
A baseball card collection that features the boys of summer dresses wearing fashions from Denver designers. Here, short stop Omar Quintanilla rocks a RAT design party frock by Rebecca Anne Tischler……
Stressed? Uptight? I wouldn’t know anything about that: See, I actually enjoy the drillin’, sawin’ and hammerin’ associated with Westword’s ongoing remodeling project, which I’m separated from by a thin sheet of dry wall and a Mexican blanket thumb-tacked over a hole that’s been chopped into my office wall. But…
Got iffy credit? Then don’t hit up Boulder West Financial Services. In recent days, Lou Barnes, one of the firm’s owners, was quoted saying this in a recent New York Times article about tight mortgage rules: “The credit pendulum is stuck at ‘stupid.’ I am turning down loans every day…
Even Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham concedes that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will be approved unless she has a “complete meltdown.” But that hasn’t prevented conservatives across the country from frightening their ideological comrades with the horrific prospect of a “wise Latina” judge on the most important bench…
Julie Stene has waited nine years for her day in court, and Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. figures that’s long enough. Denying a reluctant district attorney’s effort to further delay filing charges in a 2000 rape investigation that the DA’s office repeatedly refused to pursue, Judge Samour instructed…
The Nuggets’ loss of Dahntay Jones to a free-agent deal with the Indiana Pacers hurt, and not just because Kobe Bryant grew to despise him over the course of the Western Conference Finals this year. His toughness and aggressiveness were just what the Nugs need to become a perennial playoff…
The contract dispute involving workers at King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons has been quiet of late, with United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 seeking to maintain member loyalty during this period via releases about, for example, pension reductions that would go into effect if the store’s latest…
As noted in a blog yesterday, operating-room tech/accused hepatitis-C passer Kristen Parker’s public comments about the possible infection of patients at two different Colorado medical facilities were limited to quotes in the criminal complaint against her: The most vivid line was, “I know, I fucked up.” Now, Channel 4 has…
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert D. Drain’s approval yesterday of Republic Airways Holdings’ plan to purchase Denver-based Frontier Airlines was widely expected and went according to Hoyle — and while other bidders can step forward in the next thirty days, you can bet none will. Now, the clock is running…
You’ve got to moove it, moove it. Today in Cafe Society: • Free Food — the film, that is. • Milking It: Arrowhead Mills Puffed Millet Cereal. • Washington to finally get some balls. • Gemelli’s morphs into House, moving from Italian to American comfort foods. • What’s Cooking? Marczyk’s…
Shepard Fairey, creator of the iconic Obama “HOPE” poster, was sentenced to two years probation and a $2,000 fine Friday in Boston after pleading guilty to several vandalism charges of posting art on public and private property. He had been arrested in February before entering an art show. The bust…
Our daily look at local bloggage. Send tips this way. The Rockies are better than expected. But — and this is a problem — so is the rest of their division. (Purple Row) It’s never too early to start trashing a politician. In this event, it’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Josh…
As if you needed any other reason to go watch the office-drone classic Office Space at Red Rocks (details here) other than the simple fact that it’s playing: Tonight’s Film on the Rocks event is doing double duty as a Denver Tweetup. Local Twitter heavyweight @TheBigKlosowski has set up a…
